Lloyd Alexander Quotes
The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
Quotes to Explore
-
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
-
Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
-
I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
-
I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
-
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
-
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
-
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
-
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
-
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
-
Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
-
You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
-
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
-
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
-
I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
-
It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
-
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
-
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
-
I've always liked that idea of a diverse group of audience members sitting together, rubbing up against each other and taking on the life of a culture that doesn't belong to either one of them.
-
Why so many of us a million years ago purposely knocked out major chunks of our brains with alcohol from time to time remains an interesting mystery. It may be we were trying to give evolution a shove in the right direction - in the direction of smaller brains.
-
I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there is no corruption in them, while in the best of men there can always be found some guilt or wickedness which seems to have earned him death.
-
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
-
The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
